In 2009 USAopoloy released the Monopoly: Star Trek Continuum Edition board game, and in late 2011 they return to the Trek universe with a "Klingon Collector’s Edition." Details below, plus find out how you can help design the game.

Klingon Monopoly Game Coming – You Can Help Design It

USAopoly are planning to release their second Star Trek Monopoly game, this time they are looking to the Klingon Empire for inspiration. Announced today at the official Star Trek site, the Monopoly: Klingon Collector’s Edition will be available in late 2011, and will feature a bi-lingual game board (presumably Klingon and English). Gameplay will be like traditional Monopoly (plus a 60-minute speed option), but the Empire has taken over the details. The 22 properties are now territories "ready to be conquered," including Kronos, Khitomer, Boreth, Ty’Gokor and Krios Prime. After conquering you can set up Outposts (Houses) and Capitals (Hotels). The Klingon version of Community Chest is "Combat" and Chance becomes "Honor."

There are still some game elements being finalized and so USAopoloy will be letting fans vote for various game elements to finalize the game. The first of these is the box top. Here are the two choices for the Monopoly Klingon Collector’s Edition box top.

I’d totally vote, but then I’d have to register for a Facebook account, so no. So my vote on Trekmovie, which I would hope would be promptly passed on to USAopoly representatives, is Option A. Thank you for your consideration.

Didn’t there used to be 4 versions of Monopoly for each “quadrant” of the galaxy and the 4 series at the time, and you could connect them together for a super-board? I seem to remember a friend having the TNG and Voyager ones…

The version with the Bat’ leth is the better one I feel. Unless you have every single Klingon character in ST history, you will wind up upsetting some folks. Why not have Kor or Kang in the TOS makeup? Why not the Duras sisters? Some one will feel that they left off their favorite Klingon.

well – not to mention it would make much more sense. I guess, since in this edition it’s about “conquering” – there won’t be traditional notes to “buy”, but rather number of Klingon warriors – lives you’re spending. Is that right?

A slight correction to the above article. USAopoloy actually has released three Star Trek Monopolies to date. The first was based entirely on Star Trek TNG and the second was based on Star Trek TOS. Then came The Continum Edition followed by Klingon Edition. The first two are highly sought after collectors items and are available on eBay for around $100 bucks.

Seeing how much Kingons changed in appearance betweeen TOS and TNG, there’s no telling what the reboot version will look like. For all we know, they could be completely different from what we’ve seen before. Who knows?

Not only would they be safer going with the first, more generic cover, but I think the first one simply looks better. Cleaner.